Astro seminar

Winter 2007

The astro seminar is a platform for all researchers in Astrophysics, i.e. grad students, PHD students, instructors, postdocs, professors [did I forget anybody?], to present their work or (as in a journal club) a paper they find interesting.

Guidelines

Work in progress is fine and most probably more interesting to the audience than completely finished projects where you know all the answers.
Not everybody in the audience works in your field, so technicalities should be minimized in favour of physical ideas.
Bring your lunch if you like (but don't munch and slurp too loudly…)

Plan

The seminar starts at 12.00.
Time slots are 30 minutes for the talk, plus 15 minutes for questions and discussion.
Please send me the title of your talk, together with a useful reference (if applicable) at least 8 days ahead of your talk, so I can properly announce it.

Date	Speaker Title	Reference
Thu 11-Jan-2007	—
Thu 18-Jan-2007	Dennis Leahy Accretion onto a Quark-Star: A Model for AXPs and SGRs
Thu 25-Jan-2007	Brian Niebergall Giant radio pulse "echoes" from the Crab Pulsar	http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612109
Thu 01-Feb-2007	David Hobill Charged Fluid Spheres in General Relativity
Thu 08-Feb-2007	Tian Wenwu Supernova remnants and High Energy Gamma-rays
Thu 15-Feb-2007	Wolfgang Dobler Distributing points evenly on arbitrary domains – how potential theory can actually be useful	D. P. Hardin and E. B. Saff: “Discretizing manifolds via minimum energy points” (related press release)
Thu 22-Feb-2007	[Reading week]
Thu 01-Mar-2007	Michael Landry LIGO status
Thu 08-Mar-2007	Jeroen Stil Beyond the polarization horizon
Thu 15-Mar-2007	Mathew Kostka Modeling GX301-2
Thu 22-Mar-2007	Jennifer Marsh A multishell model for Gamma Ray Bursts
Thu 29-Mar-2007	Nicole Kaiser An estimate of the spatial density of asteroids interior to the Earth's orbit
Thu 05-Apr-2007	Julie Grant Image Stacking: Retrieving Signals from the Noise	Richard White, D. Helfand, R. Becker, E. Gilkman, and W. De Vries, “Signals from the Noise: Image Stacking for Quasars in the FIRST Survey”, ApJ, 654:99-114, 2007
Thu 12-Apr-2007	Phil Langill Remote controlling telescopes and seminar speakers -- a demonstration
Mon 16-Apr-2007	Dominic Schnitzeler WSRT Faraday tomography of the Galactic Interstellar Medium

Venue

Meeting room SB 605D

Sign up

To sign up for a talk, contact Wolfgang Dobler at Wolfgang.Dobler@ucalgary.ca, see him in SB 527B, or call him at 220-6367.

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Last updated 11-Jan-2007 by Wolfgang Dobler
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